At about 10 p.m. I gave up waiting for Stuff, the Herald, Creative NZ, Booksellers NZ or even Facebook to notify us of the winners of the NZ Post Book Awards announced tonight in Wellington – and then thought – Twitter! Specifically, the IIML Twitter. And lo, the results were there awaiting. In no particular order:
Fiction: The Hut Builder by Laurence Fearnley
Poetry: The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls by Kate Camp
General non-fiction: Blue Smoke by Chris Bourke
Illustrated non-fiction: The Passing World by Damian Skinner.
Book of the year: Blue Smoke by Chris Bourke
A few minutes later Booksellers NZ updated its site with the full results, adding that Chris also won the People’s Choice Award, which makes a unique hat-trick.
I hope he has a hangover in the morning. He has earned one. That book has been years in the making, and a lifetime of thinking.
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